I 100% agree with you OP. As someone who remembers the good old days of Everquest, there was this thing the players liked the refer to as etiquette.

You treated each other with respect, trolling was non-existent, and any obscene behavior would result in you being alienated by the server rapidly.

Unfortunately, the education system in America has gone downhill rather quickly in the past decade and the kids coming up in their teens and even the young twenty somethings have no respect, no culture, and no moral standards.

It's not just TERA though, it's every MMO, especially the transient group of players that flock to the new game, trash it, and go back to the hole they crawled out of. In general, gamers have rather poor social skills, especially the MMO crowd.

There's a reason I call the chatbox the "idiot box" and I almost always turn it off. Just remember, these people are scum, and they will reap in life what they sow. Don't give them the attention that they so desperately crave and eventually they go away.

They are usually so flawed mentally that they don't get past lvl 30 in most games I play anyways. I highly recommend getting out of the low level zones asap and looking for other mature gamers such as yourself to team up with, to escape the human scum that is the internet generation.

I know not all of you young ladies and gentlemen are part of the problem, but the percentage of human scum versus respectful gamers has drastically shifted in the past decade. It's very sad indeed, it is even sadder that it is purely a reflection of the world itself as well.

Rise above, be civilized, treat each other with respect, and ignore those who don't do the same.

Really? Look, it's the internet. People will say what they want, when they want. Nothing you do can change that.

I have been playing MMORPGs for the past 13 years, and over the years, the level of degradation of the chat channels has been steadily increasing. It seems like the more people believe they are not responsible for their actions (or words as it would seem in this case), the worse they become.



Last night on the Valley of Titans server, I believe the human race hit an all time new low. From the second I logged in to the server until the second I logged out (5 hours later, thank you En Masse for bringing Tera to the west), the chat was flying by at a lightning pace.



For every game related question or comment, there were on average ten insulting, degrading, racist, sickening comments.



All night long, it was just one rude insulting statement after another, and it wasn't just one or two people doing it. Sadly, it was a BUNCH of people being as rude and insulting as humanly possible. This was like Barrens Chat on steroids.



People talked about how religion was a joke, and insulted every religion imaginable. They professed about how awesome every evil dictator in history was including Hitler. Racist remarks and comments were flying like crazy the whole night. It was just truly sad.



Is this what the human race has become? Are we really this pathetic that when we are anonymous, we become the most vile scum on Earth?



I came close to just logging out after a few hours of non-stop hate spam, but then I thought no... En Masse does not deserve to lose me as a customer just because the players of their game are horrible people.



I wish there was a server where your statements could get you banned from that server. I would pay MORE to be on it.